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From Ballad to Blank Verse, Elegy, Epic, Free Verse, Haiku, Limerick,

and Sonnets, Poetry is...

1. The art of rhythmical composition, written or spoken, for exciting pleasure by beautiful, imaginative, or elevated thoughts.

2. Literary work in metrical form; verse.3. (The site says Prose but we’ll say) Text

with poetic qualities.

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What some poets say it is:

•"Poetry is when emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words“ - Robert Frost•“Poetry at its best uses words to say more than words can say.” -Marvin Bell•"Poetry is what in a poem makes you laugh, cry, prickle, be silent, makes your toe nails twinkle...“ -Dylan Thomas

Direct comparison of two things which by their general nature are different from each other

Uses “like” or “as”

Implied comparison between two unlike things

Usually uses a form of “to be” verb (is, are, was, were)

Does not use “like” or “as”

Giving human characteristics to an animal, object, or idea

Repeating consonant sounds in two or more words or syllables

◦Karl cooks cookies.◦Carl can catch.◦Mommy makes me mad!◦Phil fired Fanny Fay.

Words that imitate sounds

◦Snap! Crackle! Pop!

◦Slam! Zip! Zoom! Pow!

◦Buzz! Bang! Zap!

◦Clank! Clang! Drip! Drop!

Extreme exaggeration

◦I’m so hungry I could eat an entire horse!!

◦Your uncle’s so fat, he walked in front of my TV and I missed 3 episodes!

Something concrete, such as an object, person, place or happening, that stands for something abstract such as an idea, quality, concept, or condition

◦Heart=love Peace sign=Peace◦4-leaf clover=luck Flag=freedom

Emotional meaning of a word beyond the dictionary meaning of the word

◦ Euphemism: A nicer way to say something (positive connotation or spin)

passed away slender Husky or big boned A face only a mother could love Wise or aged

Dictionary meaning of a word—literal meaning

Concrete details that appeal to the five senses

◦Touch, sight, sound, smell, taste

Lines Stanzas Rhyme and Rhyme Scheme Couplets Quatrains Rhythm Meter Iambic Pentameter

Correspondence, in two or more words, of ending sounds

◦End Rhyme: a rhyme that occurs in the last syllable of lines

◦Internal Rhyme: Rhyme between a word within a line and another word at the end of the same line

A regular pattern of rhyming words

Corresponding lines that rhyme with each other in a stanza— represented by letters of the alphabet for each new rhyme

Line 1: Roses are red ALine 2: Violets are blue BLine 3: Sugar is sweet CLine 4: And so are you B

A formal division of lines in a poem, considered as a unit

◦“Poetry Paragraph”

Two successive lines of poetry marked by end rhyme – usually expresses a single idea:

My love for you Will always be true

You are mineAnd that is just fine

A stanza made up of 4 lines usually with a definite rhythm and rhyme scheme

Pattern of accented and unaccented syllables in spoken and written language

Used to pace the poem

The meter of the poem is its rhythmical pattern determined by the number and types of stresses or beats

English verse is described as being made up of rhythmical units called “feet”

A foot consists of some combination of unstressed (˘) and stressed (´) syllables

One unaccented syllable followed by an accented syllable

English speech—natural iambic beat

Sounds like a heartbeat

“Her deck/ once red/with he/rose blood”

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Ballad Blank Verse Elegy Epic Free Verse Haiku Limerick Sonnets Shakespearian or English Sonnets

A 14-line lyric poem usually written in rhymed iambic pentameter

Three quatrains and a couplet Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd efef

gg Written in iambic pentameter

Unrhymed verse written in iambic pentameter (an unstressed syllable usually begins the line)

Poetry that follows no set patterns of rhyme, meter, or line length

A traditional Japanese 3-line poem containing 5 syllables in the first line, 7 in the second, and 5 again in the third

It presents a picture, or image, in order to around specific emotions in the reader

A single narrative poem in 4-line stanzas, usually meant to be sung and usually rhyming abcb

A poem that laments the dead, frequently long and formal in tone

A long story, often told in verse, involving heroes and gods

Grand in length and scope, an epic provides a portrait of an entire culture, of the legends, beliefs, values, laws, arts and ways of life of a people

Example:The Odyssey

Short, 5-line humorous poem Rhyme scheme: aabba

There was an old man of the islesWho suffered severely from pilesHe couldn’t sit downWithout a deep frownSo he had to row standing for miles

(Contributed by Natalie Moffitt)

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